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Riad Tanja Frommer's Exceptional

Cuisine Moroccan
Hours Tues-Sun noon-3pm and 8-11pm
Location Off rue d'Amerique, American Steps, rue du Portugal, Medina
Transportation Accessible by foot only (just inside the medina, signposted from the top of the steps)
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 039/333538, 039/333054
Web site www.riadtanja.com
Prices Set menu 300dh ($38/£19)
Credit Cards MC, V
Other Alcohol served. Parking at American Steps

Frommer's Review

Moha Fedal, of Dar Moha fame in Marrakech, is behind this fantastic Moroccan salon-restaurant. The menu is described as nouvelle Marocain, and is just as popular with Tanjawis as with visitors. A set five-course menu travels the length and breadth of Morocco. Starters are a mosaic of Mediterranean salads including a ratatouille taktouka, mashed sweet pumpkin, and a red-pepper paste with almonds. A pastilla of pigeon or monkfish or veggie-filled pastry triangles follows. Entrees are all Moha's takes on the standard tagine and can be accompanied by a spicy house couscous. I love the dessert selections, which include a Hispano-Moorish tart and a simply delectable chakhchoukha (almond and apple in a phyllo pastry) served with saffron-infused stewed apples. The twin salons are decked out with thick, red Berber carpets; dark-wood chairs with comfortable linen cushions; antique drawings, paintings, and maps adorning the shiny tadelakt walls; and soft lighting and candles. On pleasant evenings, ask for a table to be set on the balcony overlooking the edge of the medina and across to the Bay of Tangier.

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